Session 4: Application 1
Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
This is data is the OSIRIS from the Bureau van Dijk OSIRIS Database, which contains comprehensive financial and ownership information on public companies, banks, and insurance companies globally. It provides standardised and “as reported” financials, earnings estimates, ownership data, and news. Visit the link in the References section to learn more about the variables reported in this data.
The data covers 2018-2021, which overlaps with the pandemic. The subset provided is on Indonesian companies, in four separate files: osiris_Indonesia_2018.rda, osiris_Indonesia_2019.rda, osiris_Indonesia_2020.rda, osiris_Indonesia_2021.rda.
The the primary question motivating the analysis is “How did the pandemic affect corporate financials in Indonesia?”
Work along with me…
bigdata and a project file bigdata.Rproj.bigdata directory. It will create the sub-directories data which will contain the data, and some starting files.sandbox.R. This is where we will write and experiment with code for the analysis. The purpose of first working with R scripts is to get the code working in a satisfactory manner, before embedding it into a quarto document, that can be re-built with new data and summarises the work.sandbox.R to read the data and take a quick look. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.